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Word: good (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Butch Jordan's band, trying for its sixth win in seven starts, has a good chance of getting it, but the outcome will depend on a few key matches and the Crimson must record plus in at least two of them. Once again the best two bouts should be the 128-pound and heavyweight tussles...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Princeton's Juggernaut Sweeps Onto Blockhouse Mats Today | 2/26/1949 | See Source »

...Moseley and Lew preston looked especially good for the Crimson in the slow-paced game, and Don Lea glittered for the hapless down-river sextet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hockey Team Trims Engineers, 13-6 | 2/24/1949 | See Source »

This short novel from Evelyn Waugh (published in Britain in 1947*) reads like a malicious parody of his good ones. It is the story of a middle-aged teacher of the classics who happens to become (through some "blood-brotherhood in dimness") the greatest living authority on an obscure 17th Century Central European poet named Bellorius. On the Bellorius Tercentenary, Scott-King is invited to Simona, a city in Neutralia, for the celebration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Journey to Neutralia | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...adult affair. A third, Brother, examines the troubles of a man who acts according to his principles, does his duty as a citizen, and gets another man killed. A fourth, A Chance for Mr. Lever, stacks everything in favor of the choice of sin by a middling good little man and notes his exhilaration after making it. A fifth, written last year, is called The Hint of an Explanation and deals briefly with the same theological theme as The Heart of the Matter. Besides these, there is a fragment of a novel written in 1936 (he gave it up, wisely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black Squares & White | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

Businessman. In Moffat, Ont., Grocer Russell Stock Elsley raced into a burning house to rescue Harry Smith, modestly shrugged off praise by explaining: "He's a good customer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

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